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They merely pander to those who believe one must ALWAYS have something to say, and are the utterances of people who love the sound of their own voice far more than listening. They believe, and are probably right, that the average football fan wouldn't listen to 'let's take a longer term view' or 'let's wait and see', so white noise comes out of every orifice. It's the verbal equivalent of an everlasting Icelandic volcanic ash cloud. We are, after all, in the era of the almost uniformly mindless drivel of Face Book and Twitter, where people find it essential to tell their 1001 "Friends" everything that rattles around in their almost empty heads. Oops, almost forgot the mandatory "LOL". I mean, just read the post-match threads on here - the vast majority being no more than "get in there" or "feckin crap" posts depending on the result, virtually NOTHING of any substance from people who have informed reasoned opinon or genuine information to share, who by and large have given up hoping to be heard.

So summer didn't arrive with that swallow at brizzle rovrz

Yes. He's younger than Waigo, has made as much if not more impact, would be cheaper, and will do well in future IMO.

Bulle? Wow! I camped there in 1978! If only I'd known I was doing a pilgrimage to the home of our Savoiur "in advance". I wouldn't have bothered with that visit to the Gruyere cheese factory just down the road. And we wouldn't have bought any extra mature Gruyere to eat , and my wife wouldn't have thrown up in my lap after the Grand St Bernard Pass, and I wouldn't have smelled of cheesy puke all the way down the Italian autostrada to Pisa. Markus, you need to make it up to me!

Oh come on, even Skates have a sense of ironic humour, you'd need one if you had to spend two hours in Fratton Park once a fortnight, and believe you were in a football stadium. (Actually its even more of a laugh walking round the outside. I thought I was back at Brisbane Road in 1966.)

Is it my eysight, or has KK got an additional nipple on his right pec?

This is a place for POSTING, not for READING. Suprised you haven't yet realised that NOBODY actually listens to anyone else, they just re-read their own posts ..over..and over.

Don't you think that Uddersfield hearing about us winning 5-1 away at a playoff contender might heap a bit more pressure on them than a nervy 1-0 win? I think they might be feeling like the one-armed man with The Fugitive hot on his tail.

This is exactly why I feel the main problem is CM. The better sides spread the play and there is more room, and actually move players forward occasionally which also tends to leave a bit more space. The lesser sides cram the defence and centre midfield, and we don't have the power to drive through from the middle of the park. Even if the wide men get round the outside cutting it back along the edge of the box often fails to generate anything because cm isn't threatening enough. Oh for a Brian O'Neil or a Nick Holmes. Many of Le Tiss's goals came from picking it up in cm, though I know we can't expect that level of ability in L1, but we need to find the L1/CCC equivalent. I'm sure AP realises this and hence the plan against Charlton was to keep playing it up to RL for flick-ons.

But it wasn't the 4th goal, was it? It was the goal that turned the game, so who knows what the result would have been had it been disallowed. Pure debating point, of course.

If he's that similar to BWP why on earth would you want to sign him? How long did we give him to develop? Did he develop? No. Once a headless chicken always a headless chicken, I suspect. OK, he caused some problems against Poopey, but then look what they had in defence! So its a "no thanks" from me.

...a player who's off the pitch lifestyle IMO played a big part in his crap form in our relegation year from the Prem, and a player who was incredibly lucky not to have been sent off in the very first minute of the cup final at Cardiff... He is no legend for me, but a player who was very fortunate to have played with Killer. Without MS, I think Lundekvam would have been history far sooner. He hung on later because we couldn't afford any one else.

Freeze frame on the old b/w film doesn't prove a thing on Hurst's goal, as there is no frame between the ball about 18" or so above the ground on its way down, and again about the same height on its way up again. However, the ball comes off the bar, hits the ground somewhere and bounces outwards. Now unless there was very heavy backspin on the ball, which given the way Hurst hit it seems unlikely, it is more probable that the ball was not wholly over the line. As for the famed "reaction" of Hunt, how many footballers have we seen claiming goals when the ball wasn't wholly over the line? Loads of them. Knowing the rules never seems to be players' strong points. His reaction may have been all the stronger as it looks unlikely he would have been able to have reached and scored from the rebounding ball anyway. Regarding Bobby's 1976 goal, Buchan was daydreaming over the far side. I was sat on Saints left wing side fairly close to the centre line, and it looked onside to me. The biggest p*sser for me was that my mates had tickets behind the goal, so we weren't together. They said before the game that they wanted to get away straight after the final whistle, and they'd meet me in the coach park to walk back to the car. I dutifully complied, only to wait there for 3/4 hour, they having decided to soak up the atmoshere, which I of course missed. Never have forgiven them for that. I have rebelled against "committee" decisions ever since!

The bloke is a dipstick. I saw him in a Chandlers Ford petrol station just before he retired, and he drove off with his right leg immobilised in plaster, with his wife and kid in the motor. Now some libertines on here might be able to tell me just how you can safely drive a big 4x4 with your accelerator foot immobilised in plaster. Oh, and he wasn't found guilty of just drink driving, he also left the scene of the accident after ploughing into the back of someone. Sorry, no effin excuses for pr*cks like that.

No it isn't. Any addiction can be beaten IF you really want to.

I had it explained to me by a guy who was working on the project for the FA at the initial stages. St Mary's £32m for 32k seats Wembley = 90k seats approx Diagramatically, make a triangle to simulate the rake of a 32k seater stadium, continue the rake upwards for the triangle of the second 32k, and up again for the third triangle of 32k. Below these three triangles, there are 6 similar sized triangles supporting them, making 9 triangles altogether, costing (at St Mary's rates) approx 9x£32 million. So at the absolute minimum it would cost about £300m. Add the "roof" and the arch, the demolition..... budget for relaying the pitch every 6 weeks... Even so, the contractor still lost a fortune on it.

When I hear this I wonder why we need an SD at all. Does the owner have a say in the style of play? Does the CE have to pursue that, or is it left to the CE to decide, and then appoint an SD who will try to deliver it by telling you who to appoint as manager? It all becomes a frightful mess, as responsibilities and accountability becomes so blurred. In fact the SD becomes the one with the CE's ear and the manager is left to be the one to field the brickbats from the fans. Does Furguson need an SD to tell him how the side should play? No. So if you get a good manager, the SD job becomes almost redundant straight away, especially if the CE or Chairman does all the contract negotiations. What a CE needs are good "independent" contacts who can give as unbiased an opinion as possible on the qualities of potential managers, not an overpaid sinecure.

Of course he did. But at the first performance the audience was moaning about Fagin’s team “always being in the pocket” of the opposition, so Shakespeare shelved it. Dickens bought the script for a farthing in the Old Curiosity Shoppe and amended it with a light touch to the ecstacy of his supporters. The copyright authorities were just about to penalise him, but he claimed that his “touch” was the “second phase” of the play, and his literary "winner" should stand. Apparently 60 years or so later, a statue of Dickens with his arm held aloft was erected outside the offices of Bentley's Miscellany, sculpted by a little-known charity school craft teacher called Peter Blue from old rags and glue made from the bones of tubercular street urchins, but it was speedily taken down by Dickens fans who thought it looked more like Joseph Merrick.

If you wear glasses as dark as those in your avatar I doubt you can see anything at all, let alone distinguish between a negative and a positive. Mind you, that would explain a lot of your posts - you clearly can't hit the correct keys on the keyboard very often.

When does Scheiderlin actually really get into dangerous positions? And you want a holding player behind him? IMO he will always flatter to deceive. He may well become a good holding player himself, but we need someone in centre midfield who, when the wide men are being tied up, can thrust through into dangerous areas. Hammond it too workman-like to do it, and Morgan doesn't have that in his game.

Absolutely spot on.

Interesting point. That ought to have given us a 2 man advantage if only our midfield could take advantage of it, but despite Morgan's undoubted technical ability there is little real thrust from midfield into danger areas. That was our problem against Poopy too.

Oxlade -Chamberlain .... sounds like an abandoned medieval village in Dorset. He provides just what the side needs - a name you can barely squeeze onto the back of a shirt. Come on Pards, sign some more memorable "English Village" names. A Lytchett Matravers, or a Piddle-Hinton (son of Alan?) will do nicely.

Dallied about?? There are only 2 windows to sign permanents, and he only had a fraction of the first one! The Jan window signings look to be inspired ones.

One in the hand is worth two in the bush, though that's not the way I look at it.